Unit+3

Looking Back on America

Essential Question: How does learning history through literature differ from learning through informational text?

Objectives:
 * Compare and contrast story characters, plots, themes, and settings from stories about American History.
 * Analyze how historical fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths or traditional stories.
 * Determine the author's point of view in two texts about the same topic and discuss the effect it has on the work.
 * Conduct an in-depth research project on a historical event of choice, followed by a multimedia report that includes insights from historical fiction.

Texts:

Terminolgy:
 * Character types
 * Historical fiction
 * Patterns of events
 * Point of view
 * Preconceived notion